{"id":52265,"date":"2020-10-15T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=52265"},"modified":"2021-01-16T00:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T07:17:37","slug":"i-love-you-alice-b-toklas-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=52265","title":{"rendered":"I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;That&#8217;s a brownie!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Toklas-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Toklas-Poster-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Toklas-Poster-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Toklas-Poster-674x1024.png 674w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Toklas-Poster-84x128.png 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Toklas-Poster-178x270.png 178w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Toklas-Poster.png 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA square lawyer (Peter Sellers) with a nagging mom (Jo Van Fleet), a hippie brother (David Arkin), and doubts about marrying his earnest girlfriend (Joyce Van Patten) ends up eating hash-laced brownies, falling for a free-spirited young woman (Lauren Taylor-Young), and questioning his entire lifestyle.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Character Arc<\/li>\n<li>Counterculture<\/li>\n<li>Peter Sellers Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThree years after donning a ridiculous wig-with-bangs to play sex-obsessed psychoanalyst Dr. Fritz Fassbender in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=52283\"><em>What&#8217;s New, Pussycat?<\/em> (1965)<\/a>, Peter Sellers had another chance to go long-haired in this time-capsule movie about &#8220;finding oneself&#8221; in the midst of the counterculture revolution. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Sellers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Sellers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Sellers.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Sellers-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Sellers-128x96.png 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sellers&#8217; character here (Harold) is hard to sympathize with: he treats his fiancee (Van Patten) terribly, he never stands up to his domineering mother (Van Fleet), and his shift to a hippie lifestyle rings completely false. This is all meant to be played for laughs &#8212; yet there&#8217;s clearly an undercurrent of supposed &#8220;Truth&#8221; behind Paul Mazursky&#8217;s screenplay as well, with guileless Taylor-Young coming across as the most authentic of the bunch. Meanwhile, the scenes with a Latino family seeking compensation for a fender-bender are simply offensive.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good use of location shooting in Los Angeles<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Location.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Location.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Location.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Location-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/I-Love-You-Alice-B-Location-128x96.png 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; you can skip this one. Listed as a Cult Movie in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063115\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=7925&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1968\/10\/08\/archives\/screen-i-love-you-alice-b-toklaspeter-sellers-stars-as-lawyer.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a brownie!&#8221; Synopsis: A square lawyer (Peter Sellers) with a nagging mom (Jo Van Fleet), a hippie brother (David Arkin), and doubts about marrying his earnest girlfriend (Joyce Van Patten) ends up eating hash-laced brownies, falling for a free-spirited young woman (Lauren Taylor-Young), and questioning his entire lifestyle. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Black Comedy Character Arc Counterculture Peter Sellers Films Review: Three years after donning a ridiculous wig-with-bangs to play sex-obsessed psychoanalyst Dr. Fritz Fassbender in What&#8217;s New,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=52265\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52265"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63667,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52265\/revisions\/63667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}